Sophos Cloud Optix
Sextortion is where someone tries to blackmail you by telling you to pay up or else they’ll reveal something truly personal about your sexuality or your sex life.
Recent sextortion scams have tried to amplify your fear by throwing a genuine password of yours into the email, or quoting your actual phone number.
The crooks want to you believe that they must have hacked your computer, or else they wouldn’t know that sort of personal data.
Here’s what to do…
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Got the following email on the Aug 7th. Had to laugh. Thought about teasing them and saying I was trying to break into the porn industry and to please release the video. Then figured it would only confirm my email address was valid.